has anybody noticed the nice realized GUI feature of Blender (an open source 3d application)?
before we get a whole cool mixer with nice fx-insertion, collapsing/de-collapsing fx in “TRACK DSPs” could be a small but useful improvement … and it’s fast to implement ( imho ).
i know we have something like this for the vst-parameters but not for a “whole” fx.
oh wrong direction of the arrow buttons in my draft …
i dig it too. might be a neat way to reapproach the different components of the tracker so that you can build custom layouts. though i bet running the scopes, scrolling pattern editor and sample editor during playback would completely annihilate whatever system resources you threw at it.
on VST-fx in collapsed state, an additional button ( [E] ) for opening the VST edit window, above the small hook button (see my draft) would be useful too …
the only usability problem is the less space for the FX name in collapsed state. but this could be solved with a tooltip and the full FX name on mouse over.
Yeah, this sounds real neat - straightforward and simple!
Good idea with the VST-fx-edit button as well. Nice illustration as well, Alex.
Just came to think of it: We must’nt forget that it should be possible to move the fx-insertion around in the ‘effect-chain’ in collapsed mode as well, but that could be done by dragging it at it’s shortened name I guess.